Improved glothes-detee and stand



W. H. EARNEST. CLOTHES DRIER AND STAND.

No. 68,355. Patented Sept. 3, 1867.

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WILLIAM H. EARNEST, OF PARKER-SBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.

Letters Patent 1V9. 68,355, dated September 3, 1867.

IMPROVED GLOTHES-DRYER AND STAND.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. EARNEST, of Parkersburg, in the county of Wood, and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and improved Clothes-Dryer; and I do hereby declare. that'thc following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to inake and use the some, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a top view of my improved clothes-dryer, part being broken away to show the construction.

FigureZ is a side view of the same, part being broken away to show the construction.

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view, taken through the line a: x, fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved clothes-dryer, simple in construction, convenient to be used, which, when the arms-arc folded down, will occupy but little space, and which can be usedin the house or out of doors, as may be desired; and it consistsin -the combination of the arms, constructed as described, revolving cap or head, and binding-wire with each other and with the supporting-post, the whole-being constructed and arranged as hereinafter morc fully described.

A- is the post or standard, which rests upon feet 13, sufliciently extended to furnish a secure base to the dryer. 0 is a cap or head,'sccurely pivoted to the upper end of thepos't or standardA, so as to revolve freely thereon.- In the outer edge of the disk or cap 0, at a convenient distance apart, are formed notches or slots 0, the lower parts of which are made deeper than the upper parts, so as toform shoulders, as shown in fig. 2. l) are the arms, the inner ends of wliich'fit into the slots c, and have shoulders formed upon them, corresponding with the shoulders formed in'the said slots or notches, as shown in fig. 2. The inner ends of the arins I) have slots formed in them, for the passage of the wire E, the outer end of said slots having, a notch formed in its upper side for tho'reception of the wire E, so that the said arms will not be liable to be drawn out of place while in use. The upper edges of the arms D are bevelled on, as shown in fig. 3, and their sidcsaro grooved longitudinally so that, when used out of doors, the clothes may be secured to the said arms by the ordinary clothes-pins, which, by forcing the fabric into the said grooves, iwillfasten the clothes securely to thc said arms. E is a wire passing around the cap C, and through .the slots in the arms D, being partially or wholly embedded in n. groove formed for its reception in the lower part of the edge of the said cap 0, as shown in the drawings.

When the arms D are extended, by raising their outer end, and drawing them outward until the shoulders formed upon their inner ends are freed from the shoulders formed in the slots c, the arms may be dropped into a vertical position, so that the dryer may occupy bntvery little space when not in use, and so that the dryer may be conveniently used as a lamp or work-stand.

lclaimyasin'ew and desire to secure by-Letters Patient- The revolving head C, flat at its top, and with a circumferential groove on its edge, around which is passed the 'wire E, having a series of arms D, suspended by means of narrow slots at their inner ends, said arms being grooved at their sides and bevelled on their upper edges,the whole supported by the stand A. as specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 11th day of May, 1867.

w. H. EARNEST. Witnesses Tnos. M. Drns, Srnornnn FREEMAN. 

